The timing of this attempted break - in is very suspicious given that it occurred so closely on the heels of
the release of hacked emails and data from a similar facility housed at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in the UK.
In other words, whatever impact
release of hacked emails may or may not have had, it would have been entirely due to the content of the emails themselves.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is boasting about how his group's
release of hacked Democratic National Committee emails is affecting the US presidential election — and says it has unreleased information about Clinton's campaign.
According to sources familiar with the ongoing investigation, Mueller also has been probing whether anyone associated with the Trump campaign may have helped Assange or the Russians time or target
the release of hacked emails and other social media promoting Trump or critical of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.
Not exact matches
While the details
of the
hacks differ, the same thing happened to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, whose emails to Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton, a member
of Snapchat's board
of directors, were
released by North Koreans who
hacked Sony.
He'd been spending a lot
of time on Reddit, and upon encountering broken image after broken image, he decided to
release to the masses a little side project he'd
hacked together.
It was not a «
hack» and it was not a denial
of service attack (DDoS),» the press
release said.
Sony Pictures this week backtracked from its original decision to cancel the
release of the $ 44 million film after major U.S. theater chains pulled out because
of threats
of violence by Guardians
of Peace, a computer
hacking group that claimed responsibility for a destructive cyberattack on Sony last month.
Another popular attack method used by
hacking collectives is «doxxing»: the act
of releasing personal, private information
of specific people, often private citizens.
On October 7, 2016, the US intelligence community
released a statement publicly accusing Russia, for the first time,
of hacking into the Democratic National Committee's email servers and for interfering with the US election process.
According to reports from CNN and the Washington Post, the Justice Department is preparing to charge Assange for his role in the 2010 dump
of diplomatic cables that were published by WikiLeaks, as well as a more recent
release of the CIA's library
of hacking tools.
While Burnett said he believes the
release of the passwords is ethical, he said he has concerns the
release might make him the target
of an FBI raid, citing the case
of a former Anonymous activist who was sentenced to five years in prison for posting
hacked data on the Internet.
The attacks come from all over, but some countries excel at a particular type
of hacking, according to Symantec's recently
released annual Internet Security Threat Report.
The stories about Trump and his countercharges against Clinton's husband have distracted attention from the
release of thousands
of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta that included some potentially damaging information.
In the immediate aftermath
of the attack — before the company
released details
of the
hack, and before any arrests were made — these sources knew key information about the
hack that later turned out to be true.
WikiLeaks, led by Julian Assange, said its publication
of the documents on the
hacking tools was the first in a series
of releases drawing from a data set that includes several hundred million lines
of code and includes the CIA's «entire
hacking capacity.»
Today, 8 July 2015, WikiLeaks
releases more than 1 million searchable emails from the Italian surveillance malware vendor
Hacking Team, which first came under international scrutiny after WikiLeaks publication
of the SpyFiles.
In July 2016,
hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee were publicly
released, and the
hacks were thought to be the work
of Russia.
But today, the group
released what's probably its most explosive — and damaging — dump yet: a collection
of several alleged NSA
hacking tools for Microsoft Windows systems, likely including multiple unknown exploits, or zero - days.
On March 28, 2018, a JokerStash
hacking syndicate announced the
release for sale
of over five million stolen credit and debit cards
The
release on websites this week
of what appears to be top - secret computer code that the National Security Agency has used to break into the networks
of foreign governments and other espionage targets has caused deep concern inside American intelligence agencies, raising the question
of whether America's own elite operatives have been
hacked and their methods revealed.
He repeats «no collusion» again and again, despite well - reported episodes such as the Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, outreach to Russians by campaign aides George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, and his own efforts to egg on more
hacking of Hillary Clinton and to trumpet memos
released by pro-Russia WikiLeaks.
The biggest crowdfunding in history attracts US$ 150 million on the promise that it will embody «the steadfast iron will
of unstoppable code»; upon
release it is immediately
hacked, and US$ 50 million is stolen.
After the declaration from Pyongyang that the
release of the film was tantamount to an «act
of war,» Sony Pictures was
hacked.
The study was
released in an effort to bring more transparency to the country's cryptocurrency space in light
of the recent exchange
hack of Coincheck, where $ 530 million worth
of cryptocurrency was stolen by hackers.
More recently, it was the
release of thousands
of hacked emails from the DNC and John Podesta, along with the allegations
of Russian
hacking, that has led the news cycle.
Announced at the first meeting
of a cryptocurrency exchange study group established by the FSA in early March, the data
release marks the latest effort by the financial watchdog in bringing greater transparency to the industry following a recent
hack of one
of the domestic exchange Coincheck.
The
hacking of Ashley Madison and the subsequent
release of the personal information
of many
of its 37 million subscribers is causing violent ripples in homes throughout the world.
In an email exchange
released by Downing Street some hours later, mr Yates and Mr Llewellyn dance around the subject
of phone -
hacking without ever mentioning it.
And did they ever,
releasing a statement slamming Donovan's hit as «the empty rhetoric
of a Republican political machine
hack who cavorted with convicted felon Bernie Kerik and took money from groups tied up in the mob.»
The only source that has
released information
of any depth on the DNC / Podesta
hack is a security firm, CrowdStrike, in the employ
of the DNC.
The comedy starring Seth Rogen and James Franco, portraying an assassination
of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong - Un, was initially shelved by Sony after the computer
hacking released thousands
of sensitive and embarrassing emails.
Hacking and
releasing information (illegal), setting up real - ish looking news sites with phony stories that opportunistic partisans would link to as proof that their side was pure and the other evil, etc, and even probes
of state and municipal voting systems, which was especially worrysome.
The committee also predicted it would likely have to revisit the topic
of the phone
hackings because
of the recent torrent
of new information
released surrounding them.
WikiLeaks
released emails
hacked from her campaign chief John Podesta within an hour
of a 2005 video
of Trump boasting about how he could get away with groping women was leaked to the press.
WikiLeaks has
released what it claims are three complete transcripts
of paid speeches Clinton gave at Goldman Sachs in 2013, all obtained via the controversial
hack of Podesta's account.
And he recalled the ugliness that attended the resignation
of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman - Schultz as DNC chair earlier this year, after Wikileaks»
release of embarrassing internal emails
hacked by Russian government agents.
[On the heels
of GOP gubernatorial hopeful Carl Paladino's claim that someone «
hacked» his computer, stole hundreds
of sexually and racially explicit e-mails and
released them to the media...]
In a press statement
released Sunday, the Nigerian government said it was probing whether the firm broke the law to wage «a campaign to perpetuate discord and
hack into personal records
of the then leading opposition candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.»
De Blasio featured in an array
of hacked emails from Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's account that Wikileaks
released.
Earlier in the week, a video from the
hacking collective known as Anonymous was
released that purports to name both the arsenal and Fort Drum as being on an ISIS list
of U.S. military targets.
A 63 - year - old was arrested at an address in Surrey as former News
of the World editor Andy Coulson was
released on police bail after being quizzed for nine hours over allegations
of corruption and the phone -
hacking scandal that forced the closure
of the 168 - year - old newspaper.
Later, Sony threatened him with legal action when he
released a
hack of the Playstation 3.
The case
of the climate
hack began last week when an anonymous individual calling himself «FOIA»
released hundreds
of private emails and documents belonging to East Anglia's influential Climatic Research Unit.
Although their introductory video manifesto «Don't worry, we're from the internet» was only
released on 11 April, members say the group has been
hacking a number
of sites since mid-February.
Anonymous claims
of NASA evidence for alien life: In June, the global
hacking collective Anonymous
released a video claiming that NASA had evidence that alien life exists and is hiding it from the American public.
When you get big hits
of wow — from buying a new pair
of shoes, for example, or eating crème brûlée — the brain
releases the reward chemical dopamine, but over time you need more and more
of those hits to get the same effect, explains Robert Lustig, MD, author
of the forthcoming book The
Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover
of Our Bodies and Brains.
BeautifulPeople can not be held liable for the loss
of user's private data or for personal data and / or personal information or communication between users being
released into the public domain either through an illegal act
of hacking, fraud, negligence or human error.
PHILADELPHIA — The
hack of the Ashley Madison dating website — which is targeted toward users who are already involved in a relationship — included the
release of millions
of email addresses that... who accessed the sites would...
Yahoo Tech reports that «The number
of legitimate - looking work emails
released in the Ashley Madison
hack is kind
of mind - blowing.